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Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 6, 2024 - How To Podcast the Evil Genius Chronicles Way
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for October 6, 2024 - How To Podcast the Evil Genius Chronicles Way Download audio On this show, I play a song from JD McPherson; my podcasting workflow and process would make no sense to anyone else; I spent a little time in the less devastated part of the...
read articleBridgy Test 5
I was frustrated after my previous test of Bridgy Fed appeared to have no effect. I tried to reverse engineer how to format these posts to come in as full text ("note") instead of an excerpt and a link to the original ("article). However, looking back at my Eleventy template I...
read articleScheduling Test
Even I am getting tired of test blog posts. This one is to test that a post I schedule for the future doesn't show up until then. I'll be honest, I'm kind of shocked that this feature isn't in the base vanilla Eleventy project. It seems like part of the MVP of a static site generator. I used these...
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My frustration continues at getting these posts to show up the way I want in Mastodon. You may ask "Considering how few people read them, why do you care?" Fair question. The truth is that I just don't want to lose to the computer. I am trying a new tactic. I got the Bridgy Fed code from...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 11 2024 - Roulette Money Burning a Hole in my Roulette Wallet
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for May 11 2024 - Roulette Money Burning a Hole in my Roulette Wallet Download audio On this show, I play a song from Bobo Bojangles; grampa's funeral has happened; I had my first complete EV charging meltdown; we charged at a brand new Circle K charger in...
read articleBridgy Test 3
Turns out I used "p-content" to wrap up my posts instead of "e-content". Why does this one element use the "e" prefix? Nice and confusing. When this shows up in Mastodon via the Bridgy push I want it to be a full post, not the link to the post with short summary. I...
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The first test worked somewhat in that it did actually push to the fediverse. The format sucked and calling it an "article" made it be a link rather than the text of a post. I changed my Eleventy format to make them be "notes" instead which should splat out the full text. Let's...
read articleBridgy Test
This is a test. After watching Henry Desroches at the 11ty conference I renewed my efforts to get Bridgy Fed working. I tried before and failed, I think at the IndieLogin stage. This time it worked so let's see if the Rube Goldberg machine is working. If so, this should show up in the Fediverse. If...
read articleBlockin' Bots with Eleventy
Image from Wallpaper Flare As part of the move from Wordpress to Eleventy, I was monitoring traffic in my access.log for the first time in a long time. Holy cow is there a lot of traffic from AI bots and scrapers. Serendipitously, on Mastodon I ran across this post about Ethan Marcotte blocking...
read articleMigrating from Wordpress to Eleventy
After almost 18 years on Wordpress, I have decided to give up on it. There are many benefits and upsides to using it such as the robust plugin marketplace and the wide variety of expertise and themes. However I grew so weary of dealing with the near constant onslaught of malware that I decided to...
read articleEvil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 12 2024 - Pesos In My Pocket
Evil Genius Chronicles Podcast for April 12 2024 - Pesos In My Pocket Download audio On this show I play a song by Edith Frost and explain why; we vacationed in Puerto Vallarta; I needed 10% more Spanish; we zip-lined and drank the history of coffee drinks and chilled; I am rebuilding...
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